For UR, federal budget battle carries high stakes

11:32 PM,
Mar. 8, 2013

University of Rochester doctoral student Lauren Brooks maintains bacterial stock for use in the Microbiology and Immunology Lab. The research lab as well as many others could be affected by sequestration cuts to research funding.

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The indiscriminate carving knife of the federal budget sequester will cut a huge swath through the University of Rochester, slashing everything from support for scientists to student aid, university officials say.

"It's a bludgeon," UR president Joel Seligman said of the federal reductions. "The cuts to the National Institutes of Health, to Medicare, to the Graduate Medical Education program, affect the ability of research universities like ours from being a catalyst for social good and from educating the future leaders of the country."